What should Apple (AAPL, Financial) do with all of its excess cash?
Some pretty sharp people have suggested that plowing it into stock buybacks does nothing for the America economy.
Hogwash, says Carl Icahn (Trades, Portfolio). With cash on the balance sheet earning almost nothing, buying back shares of one of America's great companies is an excellent use of capital.
Here he is elaborating on that position:
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